Justin Willson - "The Moods of Early Russian Art" - Mathew Jesse Jackson
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Justin Willson will discuss "The Moods of Early Russian Art." He will be joined in conversation by Matthew Jesse Jackson. A Q and A and signing will follow the discussion.
At the Seminary Co-op.
About the book: "The Moods of Early Russian Art" describes an alternative early modernity at the easternmost border of the European cultural sphere, where the Renaissance marked a return not to secular humanism but to the religiosity and art of the Middle Ages. Charting a kind of “Renaissance in reverse,” art historian Justin Willson explores how the value placed on style and virtuosity faded in importance as the Church cultivated miracle-working images during the reigns of Ivan the Great and Ivan the Terrible. Arguing for a broader unity of interests among artistic workshops across the Muscovite landscape—a system of interconnected values that he explains using the language of “moods”—Willson examines icons, illuminated manuscripts, enamelwork, and murals, tracing how the interpretive framework of the age shifted from the “aesthetic” and “literal” moods to the “intoxicated” and “romantic” over the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
About the author: Justin Willson is assistant professor in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University. His research focuses on issues of interpretation and aesthetic value in Byzantium and the early Slavic art., and he is the author of "The Moods of Early Russian Art."
About the interlocutor: Matthew Jesse Jackson teaches in the Departments of Art History and Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. He is the author of "The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes ," which won the Robert Motherwell Book Award from The Dedalus Foundation as well as the Vucinich Book Prize.
At the Seminary Co-op.
About the book: "The Moods of Early Russian Art" describes an alternative early modernity at the easternmost border of the European cultural sphere, where the Renaissance marked a return not to secular humanism but to the religiosity and art of the Middle Ages. Charting a kind of “Renaissance in reverse,” art historian Justin Willson explores how the value placed on style and virtuosity faded in importance as the Church cultivated miracle-working images during the reigns of Ivan the Great and Ivan the Terrible. Arguing for a broader unity of interests among artistic workshops across the Muscovite landscape—a system of interconnected values that he explains using the language of “moods”—Willson examines icons, illuminated manuscripts, enamelwork, and murals, tracing how the interpretive framework of the age shifted from the “aesthetic” and “literal” moods to the “intoxicated” and “romantic” over the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
About the author: Justin Willson is assistant professor in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University. His research focuses on issues of interpretation and aesthetic value in Byzantium and the early Slavic art., and he is the author of "The Moods of Early Russian Art."
About the interlocutor: Matthew Jesse Jackson teaches in the Departments of Art History and Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. He is the author of "The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes ," which won the Robert Motherwell Book Award from The Dedalus Foundation as well as the Vucinich Book Prize.
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